The world’s largest floating wind turbine has begun generating power off the coast of Portugal. The WindFloat Atlantic project connected the first of three 8.4-megawatt MHI Vestas turbines planned for installation. The offshore wind turbine is connected to a substation … Read More
Offshore wind to become a $1 trillion industry
Offshore wind power will expand impressively over the next two decades, boosting efforts to decarbonise energy systems and reduce air pollution as it becomes a growing part of electricity supply, according to International Energy Agency. The IEA finds that global … Read More
Europe leads the global clean energy transition
An ambitious political agreement on increasing renewable energy use in Europe was reached today between negotiators from the Commission, the European Parliament and the Council. Today’s deal means that two out of the 8 legislative proposals in the Clean Energy for … Read More
Excitement About Floating Offshore Wind
When the first floating offshore wind demonstration projects were deployed nearly ten years ago, most observers thought that the technology was intriguing, but the costs and degree of difficulty were both very, very high. At that stage, fixed-bottom offshore was … Read More
New joint industry report highlights innovation needs to unlock a multi-gigawatt (GW) pipeline for global floating wind market
A new report released today from the Floating Wind Joint Industry Project (Floating Wind JIP) outlines the key technology challenges and priority innovation needs for the sector to reach cost parity with other energy technologies. The report is a summary of key … Read More
Between the 27th and the 30th of September 2016 Hamburg hosted the exposition of wind power businesses
It has been a great opportunity for visitors and exhibitors to create new contacts and customers relations, while acquiring further information about the nowadays wind market. Windcrete had the opportunity to contribute with a presentation to this event and in … Read More
The WindCrete team has presented a new article in the OMAE Congress
Experimental RAO’s analysis of a monolithic concrete spar structure for offshore floating wind turbines Nowadays the offshore wind energy market is clearly oriented to be extended around the world. Bottom fixed solutions for supporting offshore wind turbines are useful in … Read More
The WindCrete team has presented a new article in the EWEA OFFSHORE Congress
Preliminary studies of a concept consisting of a monolithic concrete SPAR platform were presented in 2014. The studies were performed in the framework of the AFOSP KIC-InnoEnergy project (Alternative Floating Platform Designs for Offshore Wind Towers using Low Cost Materials) … Read More
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